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Torres is empowering women through self-defense classes. >> either you have to bend at the hips or do the beyonce hair whip. step back. nice. hand is down low. hand is down low. you're going to drive off that back leg and slap, swing your arm through here. this is an ear. palm to the ear for a strike. this is completely to put them on the defensiv to stun them to give you the moment to create get-away. >> one of the worst places to be is on your back below your attacker. use your back muscles. that's all the strength i've got. this goes behind my arm so i can't pull out. trap that leg. lift yo...

Myself, you know, we've been told tell your kids to stay away from strangers. but you have a different philosophy. what is it? >> well, first of all, everybody talks to strangers, gretchen. you and i will get in the line at the supermarket and talk to the person in front of us and behind us and our children can see that kind of behavior, so we're displaying hypocrisy when we tell them not to do something that we do on a regular basis. we also tend to limit their universe when we tell them not to talk to strangers. we also -- they'll lose opportunities, because the reality is, is that the vast ...

And meanwhile, we've got george zimmerman, who got as in self-defense classes, criminal justice classes, a father who is a magistrate, doesn't have good enough credit to be a cop but has enough credit to buy gun and bullets. >> i think he could have been confronted on not knowing sef-defense because captain carter, the professor, said he knew, it he took the class, he got an "a" and they could have cross-examined him on all of this. >> as i say, two people can keep a secret when one of them is dead but in a civil case he'll be forced to testify. >> absolutely. i think he'll be put on the stand...

And that's good. >> we respectfully disagree. >> let me say this, john. the fact that zimmerman has said, well, his instructor said he only had limited skills, even though he was training two or three times a week for a year, but it also comes back to mind that zimmerman said he didn't know anything about stand your ground. and then his teacher comes on and said oh, no, we talked about it extensively, and he got an a in the class. so, again, is this web of lie theory going to come back in the end to try to even discount this? >> i don't think so. and it should. the point of it, not only was he...

That trayvon put his hands over his mouth and over his nose and he was bleeding but there's no evidence of blood or zimmerman's dna anywhere on trayvon martin's hands. >> under his finger nails. >> huge inconsistency there. they're going to take this jury step by step from his statements and show george zimmerman simply was not telling the truth. taken these self-defense classes knows the law and tailored his story to comport with the law. >> one thing a lot of people following this found interesting the judge ruled against the expert testimony about who may have been screaming for help in the...